WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. 315 they pass the summer, they raise two broods in the season. They are commonly caught in trap-cages, to which they are sometimes allured by a stuffed bird, which they descend to attack; and they have been known to survive in domestica¬ tion for upwards of ten years. This species is common in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, and has been taken north to southern Illinois and North Carolina. Note. — The Grassquit {Euetheia bicolor) and the Melo¬ dious Grassquit {Euetheia canora) — both West India birds — have been taken in southern Florida, though they are merely accidental wanderers there. WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. Zonotrichia leucophrys. Char. Upper parts grayish brown, streaked with dull bay, and pale ash ; crown white, bordered by bands of black ; lines of black and white from eyes to hind neck; wings with two white bars; tail dusky; below, gray, whitening on throat and belly; flanks shaded with brown. Length about 7 inches. Nest. In an open woodland, on the ground or in a low bush,— usually concealed in grass at the foot of a bush; firmly made of dried grass lined with fine grass,—sometimes with deer's hair or feathers, or roots. ^gg^- 4~6i greenish white or bluish white thickly spotted with red¬ dish brown; o.go X 0.65. This rare and handsome species is very little known in any part of the United States, a few stragglers only being seen about the beginning of winter, and again in May or earlier, on their way back to their Northern breeding-places, in the fur countries and round Hudson's Bay, which they visit from the South in May, and constmct their nests in June in the vicinity of Albany Fort and Severn River, These are fixed on the ground, or near it, in the shelter of the wiUow-trees which they glean, probably with many other birds, for the insects which frequent them.